Education

2007-2013: Stieglitz St.Petersburg State Academy of Art & Industry, St. Petersburg, (monumental art department, subject specialism "monumental painting")

2011-2013: Pro Arte «School for young artist», St. Petersburg


Solo exhibitions

2024 – Garden of Hands, gallery Myymälä2, Helsinki

2022 – Home Odyssey, gallery YÖ, Helsinki

2022 – Snow and Sun (with Ilkka Pitkänen), Albatross cultural space, Helsinki

2020 – Why F, Borey Gallery, St.Petersburg

2019 – SuperPosition, NAMEGALLERY, St.Petersburg

2019 – This Apple, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2018 – Leib & Korper, Laboradoria Intimnoe Mesto, St. Petersburg

2017 – Unforeseen, Inner Voice, St. Petersburg

2015 – The Conditional Field, Taiga, St. Petersburg


Residencies / Awards

2024 – Cite Iternationale des Arts residency, programm 2-12, Paris

2024 – scholarship BGF (bourse du gouvernement français) for Cite residency

2024 – grant Taike (for the exhibition in Myymälä2, 2 months work)

2023 – residency Garage Studios, Moscow

2022 – residency Biostation, Koltushi (Russia)

2022 – Villa Eläintarha residency, Quantum Critic 2021 project, Helsinki

2022 – Corona grant Taike

2021 – Artkommunalka Artist Residency, Kolomna, Russia

2019 – IASPIS international programme for Visual and Applied Artists, Umea, Sweden

2017 – Sergei Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Prize (nomination "Best Media Object")

2015 – Residence Nordland Kulturesenter, Bodø, Norway


Festivals

2023 – Gyumri Art Week, Gumri (Armenia)

2023 – Aletheia festival, Raseborg (Finland)

2022 – FERMENT, CYFEST-14, Darlington,Yerevan

2021 – The VIDEOFORMES festival, Clermon-Feran (France)

2021 – The 13th CYBERFEST, Dartington, UK/St. Petersburg, Russia

2018 and 2017 – Art Prospect festival, St.Petersburg

2016 – The view from the other window, program of video art of the International Film
Festival of Andrei Tarkovsky's «The Mirror», MMOMA, Moscow

2016 – 62-th Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany

2016 – Bang Boom III festival, Northampton, UK

2016 – The 9th CYBERFEST, Pratt Institute, NYC, St. Petersburg

2015 – Supermarket, (with group Parazite), Stokholm

2015 – 61-th Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen

2014 – CYBERFEST, Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg and in NY Media Center, New York

2013 – Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum, festival; Museum of Urban Electrical
Transport, St. Petersburg


Selected Group Exhibitions / Screenings / Performances

2024 – Modulations: sound, light, movement, Pavilions of the Mikhailovsky Castle, St. Petersburg

2023 – Out of Office, Asbestos art space, Helsinki

2023 – The Beginning — A New Abyss, Huuto gallery, Helsinki

2023 – Organic, Gallery Longa & Fönari, Helsinki


2022 – Home Odyssey, Process wall exhibition and performance, Myymälä 2, Helsinki

2022 – Yö-Fest vol. 2, Yö Gallery, Helsinki

2022 – Communication, gallery Borey (St. Petersburg) and Studio 44 (Stokholm)

2022 – Parazit Group. Searching for the Trained Spectator, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg


2021 – Yö-Fest vol. 1.4, Yö Gallery, Helsinki

2021 – performance Crime of Passion within Unusual Companionship, Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki

2021 – You, inter alia, on-line project

2021 – Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg


2020 – NEMOSKVA (MORE THAN MOSCOW), The Manege, St. Petersburg

2020 – Nevsky Express, Museum Art4, Moscow

2020 – ( ), Egorka gallery, St. Petersburg


2019 – Negotiators, XIII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk

2019 – Oh, zin, you are the world! The Library of Book Graphics, St. Petersburg

2019 – Project"Jubiley", Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg


2018 – No Pastoral, The Library of Book Graphics, St. Petersburg

2018 – VII Independent Contemporary Art Fair "Saint-Dogvellburg", Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg

2018 – Bergman. Metamorphosis, Solyanka, Moscow

2018 – Exhibition of Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award Nominees 2017, Sergey Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg

2018 – Om Jag Bara Kunde, Köttinspektionen, Upsala (Sweden)

2018 – Olympus, gallery Borey, St. Petersburg


2017 – Between Fatigue:Towards the New Forms of Life, Parallel program of the 4th Ural Biennale, Palace of Culture for Railway Workers, Ekaterinburg

2017 – Worldbuilding, Special project of the 4th Ural Biennial, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil

2017 – Russian Puzzle, Novy Museum, St.Petersburg

2017 – Nepokorennye Prospect, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2017 – Pieter Bruegel. The Upside Down World, ArtPlay, Moscow

2017 – Jurney to the Center of the Earth, ArtPlay, Moscow

2017 – Art on the Highway, Kurechin art center, St.Petersburg


2016 – Cinema of Dreams, Ground-hodynka, Moscow

2016 – Wave Theory, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2016 – My Self. Self-portrait in the Collection of the Russian Museum, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2016 – Psycho, Parallel program of the Moscow Biennale of Young Art, the Centre for creative industry (CCI) FABRIKA, Moscow

2016 – The Human Condition, Borey, St. Petersburg

2016 – The Buds, Liljevalchs hubb, Stockholm

2016 – 5 rooms. The Most Interesting Thing Inside, Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg

2016 – The view from the other window, program of video art in the framework of the International Film Festival of Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Mirror", MMOMA, Moscow


2015 – Soft#Norm, Artplay, Moscow

2015 – A-art F-feminism," SRI "DAR", Moscow

2015 – 10 new Bad Works, Borey, St. Petersburg

2015 – In the Aabsence of the Artist, gallery Sever-7, St. Petersburg

2015 – Sub Observationem, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2015 – Try on, Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg


2014 – Other Capital, Museum of Moscow, Moscow

2014 – The Black Envy, Parallel program of Manifesta 10, Borey, St.Petersburg

2014 – Red Eye Effect, FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg

2014 – Love Is... , Nepokorenniе 17, St. Petersburg


2013 – Lost in translation, Special project of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice

2013 – Diary of observations, ART-reFLEX, St. Petersburg

2013 – Parasite +, WINZAVOD CCA and PERMM, Perm, Moscow

2013 – Why do we go to the exhibition, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

2013 – Beautiful, RuArts Gallery, Moscow

2013 – Jubilee, Borey. St. Petersburg


2012 – Saturnalia, Tbilisi, Batumi



Festivals and programmes

2022
– Villa Eläintarha residency, Quantum Critic 2021 project

2022 – FERMENT, CYFEST-14, Darlington

2022 – residency Biostation, Koltushi (Russia)

2021 – residency Art-Kommunalka, Kolomna (Russia)

2021 – The VIDEOFORMES festival, Clermon-Feran (France)

2021 – The 13th CYBERFEST, Dartington, St. Petersburg

2019 – Iaspis residence, Umeå (Sweden)

2019 – Lookforward, Fort "Konstantin"

2018 – Art Prospect festival, St.Petersburg

2017 – Art Prospect festival, St.Petersburg

2017 – Art Fair Suomi, with group Parasit, Helsinki

2016 – The 62-nd Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen

2016 – Bang Boom III festival, Northenmpton, GB

2016 – The 9th CYBERFEST, Pratt Institute, NYC, St. Petersburg

2016 – VI International Festival of screen and media arts, Krasnoyarsk.

2015 – Supermarket, (with group Parazite), Stokholm

2015 – Residence Nordland Kulturesenter, Bodø, Norway.

2015 – The 61-st Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen

2014 – The 8th CYBERFEST, Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg and in NY Media Center, New York

2013 – Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum, festival; Museum of Urban Electrical Transport, St. Petersburg


Collections

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

NationalCentre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

V. Smirnov & K. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia

Video archive Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen

Private collections


In the media

Garage archive, interview (in Russian)

https://russianartarchive.net/ru/catalogue/person/PDKV


The Calvert Journal. Curated selection Your definitive who's who in the new generation of Russian visual artists (in English).

https://www.calvertjournal.com/alena-tereshko-curated-russia-z

IASPIS (the Swedish Arts Grants Committee's international programme for Visual and Applied Artists) website. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in English).

https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/en/international-p...

The Calvert Journal. Troubled Youth. Russia video artists address the problems of a generation (in English).

https://calvertjournal.com/features/show/4614/Russian-video-artists-millenial-problems

The CYLAND Video Archive, composed of video works of the artists who participated in Cyfest festivals that had been held by CYLAND Media Art Lab since 2007 (in English).

http://videoarchive.cyland.org/video_artists/tereshko-alena/

Artkommunalka (artist residency in Kolomna, Moscow region) website (in Russian).

https://artkommunalka.com/materials/projects/art-p...

blinkvideo, a platform for research of video art, performance and multimedia installations. Artists' presentations (in English).

https://blinkvideo.de/?scope=artists&id=452

Artuzel Journal. Interview with Alena Tereshko on the opening of her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2019 (in Russian).

http://artuzel.com/content/alena-tereshko-eto-vo-mnogom-o-sisteme-hudozhestvennogo-obrazovaniya-v-rossii-no-ya-nadeyus

Masters Journal. Alena Tereshko tells about her practice (in Russian).

http://journal.masters-project.ru/alyona-tereshko-eto-to-chto-dolzhno-byt-so-mnoj/

AroundArt Journal. Article about Alena Tereshko and her exhibition in Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2019 (in Russian).

http://aroundart.org/2019/03/12/4-fevralya-10-marta/#tereshko_mmoma